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The 2015 MLS season will be filled with new beginnings. As the league sets to celebrate its 20th season, it will also welcome the expansion franchises of Orlando City SC and New York City FC. The two teams officially square off for the first time this Sunday, which will be the first of two games exclusively broadcast on Sky Sports. The upcoming read »

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Orexigen’s failure to keep a lid on a key safety analysis of its obesity drug Contrave will lead the Food and Drug Administration to force it to do a second study in order to prove that the medicine is safe for the heart.

The FDA made the decision even before Orexigen disclosed data from the study, called LIGHT, in a patent filing read »

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Lisa Mann joined Kind Healthy Snacks in January, assuming the role of executive VP of marketing. She joined from Mondelez International, where she most recently had been senior VP of the global gum category. Prior to that, she was VP of cookies—and the marketer behind the now-famous ‘Oreo Tweet.’

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Once Upon A Time In Shaolin may only ever be heard by its buyer, but it’s available for virtual viewing–from its silver-and-nickel box to its 174-page liner notes wrapped in leather by a master bookbinder. Read on for more. read »

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Listed investments have been tracking oil prices lately, even businesses that have nothing to do with oil prices. Have a look at US alternative energy stocks, shares in companies that compete with coal and gas, not oil. That is because the listed markets often move together, whether that makes sense or not. Many investors look to alternative read »

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The box that has housed the Wu-Tang Clan’s secret album for much of the past year recently arrived at MoMA PS1 in Queens, carried by a white-gloved porter and flanked by security guards–but it almost didn’t make it through customs. read »

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With just around 20 games remaining in the NHL regular season, there’s still a lot to be determined for playoff seeding, and much great hockey to be played. For NHL fans that claim there’s nothing better than playoff hockey, the sport is approaching their apex as teams jockey for playoff positioning.

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SanDisk is best known for two things: firstly for making all those SD cards and USB keys that we consumers use and secondly for being a manufacturer of raw flash storage that other companies then build into storage platforms. Indeed just last week Solidfire announced a new all-flash storage appliance that leveraged SanDisk flash.

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Some of these companies are looking at mixed storage technology environments but it is clear that all of these applications are moving flash memory closer to being a primary storage repository to take advantage of its higher performance. The advances by SanDisk with its Infiniflash platform as well as offering by Micron, Solidfire and other read »

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There’s another nasty web bug in town called FREAK. It affects most Apple and Google device users, though actual attacks might not be easy to carry out. Worryingly, the vulnerability stems back to a decision made by the US government that was supposed to benefit the NSA. read »

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In a beautifully crafted and compellingly delivered speech delivered before Congress—one that supporters will surely agree accomplished what the Israeli Prime Minister set out to accomplish—Benjamin Netanyahu worked to persuade the world that the President of the United States, through his nuclear negotiations with Iran, is leading the read »

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Congress, in its wisdom, has seen fit to create more than a dozen different tax-advantaged retirement savings accounts, each with its own rules on contributions, loans, and when you can take money out without paying a 10% “early withdrawal” penalty on the distribution. read »

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Sweet Briar College will close at the end of the academic year despite having a $94 million endowment. Ranked #245 on Forbes Best Colleges List, Sweet Briar’s closing shows that economic and enrollment strains are hitting even the best of the small liberal arts colleges hard. Who will be next? read »